Part 13 (2/2)
”That Christ is The Lord of Lords unto Whom all power is given in Heaven and on earth, nothing can more clearly imply than the circ.u.mstances connected with this Portion of my Diary. The Duke's last letter had decidedly declared he would write no more, and his character is too well known by the World for such to conclude he would not act up to his word and determination. But since 'IT IS WRITTEN' 'The King's Heart is in the Hands of the Lord as the rivers of water, He turneth it which way soever he pleaseth,' _so_ likewise ALL hearts. Consequently when _The Lord's_ time came for proving to him the folly of forming such a rash resolution, he writes accordingly, and that too at a moment when I least expected it, so long a period having elapsed in silence. Nor do I, as he therein specifies, recollect requesting him to answer that any more than other letters from time to time forwarded as the Lord condescendingly influenced me, however solicitous I was for their safety. I continued to hope that their contents would eventually be permitted to lead him to feel the emptiness and nothingness of all earthly grandeur, in comparison with the enjoyment of a Crown of Glory.”
What induced the Duke to reopen the correspondence is hard to determine; but the interchange of letters was soon as regular as ever.
June 10, 1844.
MY DEAR MISS J.,--I have received all your letters, including one written yesterday, the 9^th Ins^t; and I am very sensible of your kindness in giving me so continually such good Counsel.
I did not write to acknowledge the receipt of your Letters; because you did not express a wish that I should do so clearly till you wrote this last.
Believe me Ever Yours most faithfully
WELLINGTON.
LONDON, June 14, 1844.
At night.
MY DEAR MISS J.,--I have received your letter of this day's date; and I am very much obliged to you for your kindness in the expression of an Interest about my Health. I am thank G.o.d! as well as I was twenty years ago, and no longer feel any Inconvenience from the Injury at that time done to my left Ear: excepting that I don't hear by the use of it, as I do by that of the other.
I hope that you are quite well.
Believe me Ever Yours most faithfully
WELLINGTON.
LONDON, June 18, 1844.
MY DEAR MISS J.,--I have to express to you my Grat.i.tude for two very kind letters since I wrote to you last; the one of the 15^th, the other of the 17^th Ins^t.
Nothing can be more satisfactory to me than to read the statements which you write of the Interest you take in my Welfare; and I beg you to believe me
Ever Yours most faithfully
WELLINGTON.
”As this book only admits of my referring to the Duke's letters in order to distinguish them and thereby secure their future safety I only occasionally introduce one wholly; therefore state that the next dated June 20th is an acknowledgment of others received by him.”
LONDON, June 21, 1844.
MY DEAR MISS J.,--I am much obliged to you for your Letter of yesterday evening. It is true that I made no observations upon the Domestick Details which your former Letter contained: nor upon your opinion on the Inmates of the Houses in which you had been visiting.
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